Grace, not her real name, was very pretty. Long blonde hair. Tall. Fun.
Tag: Strategic
Growth for growth’s sake isn’t a strategy. It’s just a tactic, the tactic of getting bigger.
Growing your business doesn’t always make it more profitable. If it did, General Motors would never have gone into bankruptcy.
“I deserve it” is a meme infecting society . . .
The market’s changing rapidly – government intervention, national and regional groups, hospital employment models.
Those who are hedging view the world differently. Rather than simply building an insular hedge around their business, they expand outside of that hedge, taking on other business, in some ways both related and unrelated.
“I deserve it” is a meme infecting society . . . it affects medical group thinking, too.
Physician compensation surveys assume that you’re average. It’s up to you to break out of the paradigm.
Unfortunately, this attitude impacts medical group thinking as well. As in “we deserve the exclusive contract,” or “I deserve her referrals.”
Grace, not her real name, was very pretty. Long blonde hair. Tall. Fun. But we used to joke that she could never develop a relationship because she didn’t like her suitors’ financial statements.
Determining strategy has nothing to do with planning. Planning is a process of projecting from the present, while strategy is the opposite: it’s selecting a desired future from among alternatives, which future is then harnessed to pull you toward it.